Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Wednesday. |
- Blinken in Kyiv promises more aid
- No drilling in Alaska refuge
- Plus, a new Rolling Stones album
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 | | President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with U.S. secretary of state, Antony Blinken, in Kyiv, Ukraine, today.Pool photo by Brendan Smialowski |
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The U.S. will send $1 billion more to Ukraine |
During a visit to Kyiv, Secretary of State Antony Blinken today announced more than $1 billion in new American aid to Ukraine. He was the highest-profile American official to visit the country since the beginning of Ukraine's counteroffensive. |
The aid includes mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, or MRAPs, which will assist Ukrainian troops in their push into Russian-occupied territory. Ukraine has retaken more than half the territory that Russia seized after its full-scale invasion. |
But the aid also goes beyond security assistance, with funding to help "rebuild a free, resilient, thriving" country after the war, Blinken said. The U.S. and Ukraine are in talks over a long-term security partnership that Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said he would like to resemble Washington's alliance with Israel. |
Hours into Blinken's visit, at least 17 people were killed in a Russian strike on Kostyantynivka, a city in eastern Ukraine that is close to the front lines, Zelensky said. The attack, one of the deadliest strikes in Ukraine in months, hit an outdoor market in the afternoon, when it is usually bustling with activity. |
 | | A ConocoPhillips oil drilling site on the North Slope of Alaska.Erin Schaff/The New York Times |
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The U.S. canceled drilling plans in Alaska's wildlife refuge |
The lease cancellations are likely to be challenged in court by Alaska, which has argued that the leases are critical for jobs and revenue. The refuge is believed to sit atop some 11 billion barrels of oil, but it is the largest remaining stretch of untouched wilderness in the U.S., and is home to grizzly and polar bears, snowy owls, migrating waterfowl, moose and caribou. |
 | | Florida's university system serves a quarter million undergraduates.Eve Edelheit for The New York Times |
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Florida is set to shake up the education establishment |
The public university system in Florida is expected this week to become the first state system to approve the Classic Learning Test, or CLT, as an alternative to the SAT and ACT admissions exams. The test emphasizes the Western canon, and has a big dose of Christian thought. |
The College Board argued that there was little research that showed that the CLT could accurately assess college readiness. And there is little data about the test: From 2016 to 2023, only about 21,000 high school juniors and seniors took the exam. |
 | | Janet Protasiewicz was sworn in as a State Supreme Court justice in Madison, Wis., last month.Morry Gash/Associated Press |
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Wisconsin Republicans push to impeach a liberal judge |
When Janet Protasiewicz won a high-stakes election this spring, it swung the Wisconsin Supreme Court to the left and threatened the Republican Party's iron grip on state politics. But now, before Justice Protasiewicz has heard a single case, Republicans in Wisconsin are coalescing around the prospect of impeaching her. |
At issue are comments she made this spring about the state's legislative maps, which she called "rigged." The impeachment push serves as a last-ditch effort to stop the court from throwing out Republican-drawn state legislative maps and legalizing abortion in Wisconsin. |
There is little precedent for the process. But the Republicans have sufficient majorities to impeach her along a party-line vote. |
- Labor: As New York City students prepare to return to school tomorrow, roughly half of the city's school bus workers said they would walk off the job unless a deal was reached in their contract negotiations.
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 | | From left, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger in London today.Toby Melville/Reuters |
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The Rolling Stones unveiled their first new album in 18 years |
The 12-track record, set for release on Oct. 20, is the group's first album of original material since 2005, and its first since the drummer Charlie Watts died in 2021. Two of the tracks were recorded with Watts in 2019, Jagger said, including "Live by the Sword," which he described as "retro." |
 | | The model Donyale Luna.Luigi Cazzaniga/HBO |
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For anyone in need of escape, you're in luck: The biggest shows in fashion are back in full force, and for the next four weeks the industry is set to deliver countless impossibly glamorous photos, as well as plenty of street style and gossip. |
Much of the attention will be on Milan, where two notable debuts will take place: Sabato De Sarno at Gucci and Peter Hawkings at Tom Ford. |
 | | The Thoma lookout post, at an elevation of 7,104 feet.Mark Felix for The New York Times |
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- Montana's fire spotters: The future of wildfire detection is cameras. But solitary humans on mountaintops still do more than machines alone can offer.
- A mystery solved: Readers have wondered for years who made the "nightmare fuel" cover of the novel "A Wrinkle in Time." A podcast host and a blog writer figured it out.
- Ghostwriter returns: An anonymous artist who gained attention with an A.I. track mimicking the voices of Drake and the Weeknd is gunning for a Grammy.
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 | | Mary Frey, 74.Mary Frey |
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What it looks like to grow older |
We all grow older, but no two people experience aging in the same way. For some, getting older is about constantly adjusting expectations for the world and the body. For others, it's about feeling increasingly invisible — or increasingly free. |
To capture that spectrum, we asked 13 older photographers to show us the people, places and times that make them feel seen. Here's what they came up with. |
Thanks for reading. Bryan Denton was our photo editor today. I'll be back tomorrow. — Matthew |
 | Writer: Matthew Cullen Editorial Director: Adam Pasick Editors: Carole Landry, Whet Moser, Justin Porter, Jonathan Wolfe Photo Editor: Brent Lewis |
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